Murphy Brown (Pearl, 6.50pm) is back for a new series tonight. This is the one that caused such a stir when it was aired last year in the United States.
We pick up tonight where we left off last time, with Murphy off to take up her new job spin-doctoring for President Bill Clinton.
Needless to say, that does not last long. Murphy could never leave her journalism roots for long.
The controversy was inspired not by where Murphy is working, but what happens when she and Kay (Lily Tomlin) are inspired by Corky's report on mammograms to get checked out.
Kay is freaked out by the possibility her results may reveal something; Murphy is totally relaxed about it, which in sitcom terms can only mean one outcome. These test results are going to be the backbone of the rest of the series.
The trademark of Murphy Brown has always been Candice Bergen and her hard-nosed put-downs, and there are going to be some of those in this series.